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As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama didn’t know much about foreign policy. He’d barely been a senator for five minutes, and he didn’t get a lot of international-relations experience as a community organizer. But there was one big, bold diplomatic initiative that made Obama stand out: He wanted to negotiate with Iran. |
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Iran, of course is among the most anti-women regimes in the world. According to an ex-CIA spy who lived a double life in Iran, the Iranian regime has subjected women to “the cruelest of punishments” ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. One of the regime’s first orders “was to force all women to wear the Islamic hijab, covering their hair and their body.” Disobedience to the law is punished severely, and “thousands of innocent young girls have been brought to prison for the most specious of reasons,” such as dressing immodestly or flirting before marriage. |
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The ex-spy reports, “Every few days guards call out names over a loudspeaker. These women know what it means to have their names called, and they hold hands, praying that this will not be the day they are dragged out of their cell and executed. Those whose names are not called execution are lined up and lashed. Many of them faint from the lashing, never knowing what the guards do with their unconscious bodies. If they are called, they are raped before execution so they are no longer virgins and there fore, according to hard-line Islamic beliefs, can no longer go to heaven.” |
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The girls who are raped and executed were denied the opportunity to “ever know the joys of romatic love. None of them would ever hold her own baby in her arms. Their final days have been filled with a level of abuse few can imagine.” And even those who follow Iran’s medieval laws are subject to the regime’s barbaric cruelty. “Many women – sometimes as young as fifteen – have been stone to death on bogus charges of adultery.” |
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What is Barack Obama’s response to this regime? He gave little to no support to Iranian protesters who risked their lives – and sometimes lost their lives – opposing the corrupt presidency of Mahmoud Ahadinejad in the Green Movement of 2009. Instead, he has extended olive branches to Iranian leaders and insisted on negotiating with the leaders of one of the world’s most heinous – and most anti-women – regimes. Fast-forward to 2011 and 2012 when we saw President Obama openly support the Arab Spring and Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood to head Egypt as president. Morsi, who has since been taken out of office, is part of the same Muslim Brotherhood responsible for the rape, disrespect, and genital mutilation of women across the globe. Rape under Morsi, and during the Arab Spring overall, was described as an epidemic. |
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